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OLSI Visual Guide · 06

Conducting Legal Research

How to research Florida law for free — finding cases, statutes, and rules, telling binding authority from persuasive, confirming a case is still good law, and satisfying the new 2026 rule that every citation you sign must be real.

12 min · Captioned · Florida · Current to 2026

How to Research Florida Law for Free

A visual guide to researching Florida law for free — finding cases, statutes, and rules; telling binding authority from persuasive; checking whether a case is still good law; and the June 2026 citation certification rule. Free from OLSI.

This visual walkthrough is published free of charge by Open Law Services Institute (OLSI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity, EIN 42-2351258. It accompanies our full written guide, which is also available as a downloadable PDF. Every OLSI resource is written and reviewed by licensed attorneys and released under an open Creative Commons licence.